The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks are being sold for the highest sale valuation in NFL franchise history, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n
The Seahawks announced Saturday the team will be sold to an ownership group led by billionaire Vinod Khosla and his family. The franchise is being sold at a valuation of $9.6 billion, according to Sportico’s Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Wiliams<\/a> and ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Seth Wickersham<\/a>. <\/p>\n Khosla’s wife, Neeru Khosla, will serve as the controlling owner, Schefter<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n “We are honored to be entrusted as the next stewards of the Seattle Seahawks. We look forward to building on the winning legacy Paul Allen created and to earning the trust of the Seahawks organization and fans everywhere,” Vinod Khosla said in a statement.<\/p>\n The deal still needs to be approved by NFL owners, who are currently expected to vote on the sale on Aug. 26, per Schefter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Khosla is purchasing the Seahawks from the estate of Paul Allen, the former team owner who died in 2018.<\/p>\n Allen’s sister, Jody Allen, took over the team as executor of a trust that willed the sale of both the Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers with proceeds to benefit charity.<\/p>\n The Allen estate sold<\/a> the Trail Blazers in March at a reported<\/a> valuation of $4 billion.<\/p>\n The sale comes close to matching the $10 billion valuation assessed to the Los Angeles Lakers when the NBA franchise was sold in June 2025.<\/p>\n That marked the highest price ever paid for a U.S. professional sports franchise.<\/p>\n The previous high for the sale of an NFL team was recorded by the Washington Commanders, which were sold<\/a> for $6.05 billion in 2023.<\/p>\n Front Office Sports’ Ben Horney<\/a> previously reported Khosla was one of two finalists bidding to purchase the Seahawks. <\/p>\n Khosla has a net worth of $13.7 billion, according to Forbes<\/a>. Soshnick and Novy-Williams reported it is “not immediately clear how the deal is being financed.”<\/p>\n The 71-year-old billionaire purchased a 3.1 percent stake in the San Francisco 49ers in May 2025, according to Bob Condotta<\/a> of the Seattle Times. Khosla will now have to sell that stake, per Condotta.<\/p>\n